Dan Digs Top 100 Tracks of 2025
This year gave us beautiful, inspiring, boundary-pushing songs from artists such as Sampology, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Ichiko Aoba, Cid Rim, Luke Titus, Kokoroko, Oddisee, Mocky, Night Tapes, LEISURE, Grandbrothers, Homeboy Sandman, Thundercat, Nate Smith, Resavoir, Yuuf, DARKSIDE, Mei Semones, Phil Cook, Thandii, and more.
Here are my favorite one hundred tracks from 2025.
(Click on the artist or track title to read my review and/or listen.)
100. Move 78 – “Mistakes On Purpose”
99. Jaco Jaco – “I Won’t Bother”
98. Vimbai Mango, Footshooter – “Searching (Nzira)”
97. Kokoroko – “Sweetie”
96. Stereolab – “Aerial Troubles”
95. First Beige – “Seeds Of Change”
94. Pedro Mizutani, Skinshape – “Criaturas da Noite”
93. Cantrips – “Red Umbrella”
92. Silas Short – “TIES”
91. quickly, quickly – “Anything”
90. Oddisee – “A Rare Thing”
89. Goldie, Rufige Kru, Submotive, Cleveland Watkiss – “Goldikus”
87. Mocky – “Music Will Explain”
86. LEISURE – “Welcome to the Mood”
85. Natalie Slade – “Telephone”
84. Grandbrothers – “We Collide”
83. Night Tapes – “pacifico”
82. Clear Path Ensemble – “Black Sand”
81. Tagua Tagua – “Dia de Sol”
80. Joe Armon-Jones, Yazmin Lacey – “One Way Traffic”
79. Shrimpnose – “slow nova”
78. Little Simz, Lydia Kitto – “Only”
77. Lei Hope – “LITTLE SIGN”
76. Homeboy Sandman, Brand the Builder – “Bazaar”
75. The Natural Yogurt Band – “On The Other Side”
74. Logic1000, George Riley – “i couldn’t hold back”
73. Everything Is Recorded – “Mackerel Sky, Fish Scales”
72. Alfa Mist, Tawiah – “All Time”
71. Grandbrothers – “Fable”
70. Natural Information Society – “Sideways Fall”
69. Tom Skinner – “Kaleidoscopic Visions”
68. Hether – “Falling For The Feeling”
67. Robert Glasper, Thundercat – “Paint The World”
66. Jonathan Jeremiah – “Counting Down The Days”
65. СОЮЗ/SOYUZ – “Крок/Krok”
64. BABO MORENO – “Bicho Preguiça (The Sloth)”
62. OAKK – “bend”
61. Thundercat – “I Wish I Didn’t Waste Your Time”
60. Nate Smith, sãje – “BIG FISH”
59. Resavoir, Matt Gold – “Canopy”
58. Theo Croker, Malaya, D’LEAU – “high vibrations”
57. Temporary Blessings – “Fata Morgana”
54. Collettivo Immaginario, Tommaso Cappellato, Mocky – “Fine Di Un’Era”
53. Carwyn Ellis & Rio 18, Elan Rhys – “Hei Ti”
52. Lady Wray – “Be A Witness”
51. MRCY – “Man”
50. Salami Rose Joe Louis – “Inside”
49. Nightmares On Wax, Sadie Walker – “True”
48. Dina Ögon – “Margaretas sång”
47. Charles Webster, EMAMKAY, Bokang Ramatlapeng – “Rain”
45. Active Child – “Coming Up”
43. Johannes Arzberger – “LP890”
41. Footshooter, Allysha Joy – “Folding”
40. Yussef Dayes, Minami Kizuki – “Amami”
39. SML – “Chicago Four”
38. Sampha – “Cumulus / Memory”
37. Loaded Honey, Lydia Kitto, J Lloyd – “Don’t Speak”
36. Jeb Loy Nichols, Cold Diamond & Mink – “Step In”
35. Ben Böhmer, JONAH – “Caught Up In The Fire”
34. Nubiyan Twist, eniola – “Azimuth”
33. Close Counters, shiv – “FREEDOM WE’RE NEEDING”
32. Berlin Lama, MISS C-LINE, Andi Allenbach – “U Don’t Want It”
31. Oliver Ghoul – “Moonwalker”
29. DiRUM – “A Tune for Us”
28. Mei Semones – “Dumb Feeling”
26. lavender – “lowlight:slowlight”
25. Matthew Herbert, Momoko Gill – “Babystar”
24. The South Hill Experiment – “RIFTING”
23. GENA, Liv.e, Karriem Riggins – “HOWWEFLOW”
21. Asta Hiroki, Tristan de Liège – “define. derive”
20. Cid Rim – “YES”
18. Yazmin Lacey – “Ain’t I Good For You”
17. El Michels Affair, Florence Adooni – “Say Goodbye”
16. Elf Traps – “Sunflowers in a Blue Sky”
15. SAULT – “I.L.T.S.”
14. Thandii – “Past”
13. Little Barrie, Malcolm Catto – “Zero Sun”
11. Ichiko Aoba – “COLORATURA”
10. Afternoon Bike Ride – “Otherworld”
9. Rural Tapes – “Flower Lab”
8. Unknown Mortal Orchestra – “Earth 1”
7. Melody’s Echo Chamber – “In The Stars”
6. Chet Faker – “This Time For Real”
5. Galdive – “Teach Me How To Love”
4. Sampology – “Morning Sun”
3. Royce Wood Junior – “Clean Up”
Listen to these tracks on my Top 100 Tracks of 2025 playlist on Spotify below and check out my Top 30 Albums of 2025 here and Top 30 Remixes of 2025 here.
2026, we’re ready.